Londinium Blog
For the love of lever espresso
Permission based marketing…
Its quite simple; we don’t do it. Yes, we know we’re crazy, we know all the books say your customers will be thrilled to hear from you at least once a month with some special offer that is matched to…
Londinium are proud to sell the Bacchi stove top espresso machine
Long time customers of Londinium will know that we have no interest in selling what we lovingly refer to as consumer grade junk. Equipment that breaks down shortly after purchase corrupts our brand, and takes up your time and ours…
New Costa Rican in stock
This shipment’s a cracker. Get it while it’s still around. The slightly grassy acidic streak in the last shipment is not present in this one.
Filter coffee
If you are new to making filter coffee, or have acquired some ‘gourmet’ coffee that you want to try for the first time we would suggest using less. Even fine gourmet filter coffees take on an unpleasant heavy treacly mouth…
Sterling stengthens a little against Swiss Franc, Olympia espresso machine prices down by around ã100
Today we have updated Olympia espresso machine prices to reflect the pound sterling finally making some recovery against the Swiss Franc. Obviously the greater the price the larger the fall, but it translates into pre-VAT reductions of GBP85 on the…
Papua New Guinea coffee, Sigri Estate
As you probably know, the root stock for the coffee plantations of Papua New Guinea was taken from the Jamaican Blue Mountains, but none of the coffees in Papua New Guinea that we have tried would ever be confused in…
What biscuit goes well with espresso?
Well biscotti obviously work, but I’ve found these in the local supermarket & their unobtrusive simplicity complements espresso extremely well. They are basically sugar, butter & flour and wafer thin so they do not overshadow the delicate elements in your…
New release: Rwandan Nyamyumba, typica bourbon, fully washed
This week we released our Rwandan bourbon for sale. Something that has worked well for this coffee is storing it for a few months before roasting. Is it possible for green coffee to be too fresh, too green, if you…
What other people think No.2
From: Kees van der Westen Subject: good coffee Date: 4 May 2010 15:06:56 GMT+01:00 To: Reiss Gunson Hello Reiss, Just wanted to thank you very much for the great samples of coffee you sent. These are exquisite! My best, kees…